Senate confirms Tulsi Gabbard as Trump’s director of national intelligence
Thanks for your input.
The link isn't loading for me, unfortunately. Not sure if it's a browser thing (I use Firefox) but I suspect that it's the "removed" in the URL causing trouble.
However, if you tap / click on those memos in the article I linked, it reveals the box art.
You might appreciate this: Leaked Memos Explain Why Every Mega Man Cover is Terrible. (satire)
Mulder documentaries? Like the X-Files?
Literally the opposite.
After the French Revolution, parliament was arranged so that the people who supported democracy and freedom literally sat on the left hand side; and all of the freeloading, self serving, bootlicking monarchists that wanted to return to rule by a king or queen sat on the right hand side.
Far right are that but more extreme. They don't just lick boots but also the assholes of the politicians and billionaires that they worship like gods.
Unfeeling Sadistic Assholes
Thanks for the nice conversation, btw.
Likewise. It's always appreciated when you can chat with someone without guards up and needing to counter snark and shit.
I've asked to remove them
I get this bad feeling that they're probably just going to tell you to get lost. I wouldn't be surprised if the moderators of those subs have okayed it. Another common thing I saw creators complaining about was dodgy Reddit moderators. The moderators of those subs aren't their friends or allies from what I can tell. If they're not the usual assortment on Reddit who aren't even part of the community but like power anyway, there's also suspected 'agencies' or other bad actors running some of these subs and making life hard for people.
But I applaud you for doing this. And I would be amazed if it actually worked.
Hey ICE. You're a bunch of evil, cruel, walking talking pieces of shit and I wouldn't waste my piss on you if you were on fire. Sincerely, someone from a country that actually respects human rights.
They're gonna have to make the great firewall of America if they want to control the narrative so badly because they might not have realised it but 'www' stands for 'world wide web'. And we don't all have to fucking bow down to fascist thought police.
I've never bowed down to Al Qaeda, so why would I bow down to y'all Qaeda?
In the '80s and '90s, everything these people didn't like was 'satanic'. Then that nonsense seemed to disappear for about a decade. Until those people returned with updated terminology that makes them look like 'free speech' warriors to all the kids and not the dogmatic psychos that they are.
So since then we've gone from SJW to woke to now DEI. But it's always been the same fucking people, or types of people, that told me that all the cartoons I watch and music I listen to was 'evil' and 'satanic' when I was a kid.
I actually almost fell for the SJW thing myself back in the day. I was circling that drain. Until I opened my eyes and saw the company that I was in. Since then I've been borderline 'SJW' myself because fuck those people.
One thing at least is that when you search "Reddit alternatives", most articles that I came across seemed to make out like Lemmy is the best option in terms of amount of users and not being advertised explicitly as a "free speech and censorship free platform", which we all know really means "bigots are welcome here." In fact when I was searching Reddit alternatives, it seemed to me that Lemmy is really the only option.
What made me leave Facebook was discovering Reddit. What made me leave Reddit was getting banned lol. What made me leave Twitter (or never actually ever bother much with it) is that it seems more like a big popularity contest than 'social' platform to me. Besides, if it was really social, there wouldn't be a character limit that benefits marketing speak and hashtags more than constructive conversation.
Never saw the point of places like Instagram that are based on being able to upload photos. Big deal, you can upload photos anywhere. And the only time I use YouTube is when I'm in the mood for music videos. I have less than zero interest in watching people's crappy home videos, it's like reality TV but even more boring and brain rotting. And I've got better things to spend my time watching. Oh, and I tried TikTok but noped out very quickly. I see absolutely no value in being spoonfed content by some shady algorithm as opposed to choosing and curating your own content.
Personally, I do not care if the platform that I'm on uses my data to advertise to me. I fell in with the 'privacy' crowd like a decade ago and did my time shaking my fists at big brother but I just don't care anymore. None of this is new. As long as the people on the platform are the kind of people that I could get along with, I'm fine. And quite capable of using an ad blocker if I so desire. I couldn't care less if Reddit used my posts in the Xena or She-Ra subreddits to advertise romance fantasy novels to me. There's more important things to focus on.
Even if it's futile, I probably still won't be able to keep my mouth shut about it lol. I do enough keeping my mouth shut in the real world, in a country where you have to assume that everyone you meet has conservative views until proven otherwise. So I'm not going to do that to myself online as well. It just feels wrong to me to not at least try when there's an injustice going on because the easiest way for nothing to change is for no one to even try and change things.
And you're right, things are at least better for amateur workers now than they were before. So that is progress. Although from what I've gathered, OnlyFans isn't completely immune to dodgy shit either. I've come across a couple of stories involving practically human trafficking situations where women are forced into this by pimps and other pieces of shit. So you never really know what's going on behind the scenes when the camera switches off and the put on smile goes away.
Which is why it's also just more ethical to get this content from the content creators themselves rather than random 3rd party websites that lift content from elsewhere. At least if you're getting it from the source, you can have some sense of whether it passes the vibe check or not.
Also, just want to add because I just thought of it. Places that set up bots that lift amateur content from around the web aren't checking for vibes or doing their homework. So they're the kinds of places that would be peddling pictures of abuse or trafficking victims, or even underage people, without even knowing it. Or caring.
The whole thing just gives me the creeps. I'm fine with people stealing from Brazzers or whatever because those workers have already been paid and you're stealing from the suits that get rich off them. But amateur stuff just has too many variables and ethical concerns for me to be comfortable with people treating it the same way as Brazzers.
Fuck ICE. What the fuck are they going to do, deport from my country that isn't the USA? This makes me feel like I start saying "fuck ICE" on the regular, just to give them more work to do with this thought police shit.
Yeah they're basically on any platform that will accommodate them. When they're not filming anything, the bulk of their work is marketing. Their advertising material on Reddit (and other places) is what leads to money in their bank accounts. Their advertising material on Reddit being taken and posted here leads to no money in their bank accounts.
I think that apart from people just generally not caring how they get the content they want, people also just have zero respect for these workers. They don't see them as fellow human beings trying to live. Or as deserving of credit or respect as other types of content creators such as artists, musicians and talentless jackasses that complain about the woke agenda on YouTube. They're just something to bust a nut to for these people but not real.
I'm not sure that I can really blame people's attitudes towards it though. We've all been kinda trained by endless scrolling porn sites to expect it all to be easy and free. And I can't say that I wouldn't have also been dismissing this as not a big deal if I hadn't taken the time to get to know what these people are all about on a different level. I probably would've still been under the assumption that they're raking in endless cash and living easy.
So yeah. It's probably futile trying to change people's attitudes towards it. And it's probably a problem that will never go away and is just part of the game.
I've honestly been considering that line of work myself for the last couple of years because I'm reaching the point of last resorts. So I've spent the last couple of years lurking in the spaces where creators discuss the business so that I can learn from them. And also because I like to enlighten myself with what people from completely different walks of life are doing and saying.
And maybe that's why I'm currently looking at them as human beings that are trying to make a living and not objects that everyone is entitled to for free.
I think a lot of people think that these creators are raking in thousands of dollars a day because of one or two success stories in the media years ago when OnlyFans was new. But these guys work fucking hard and often go through months where they're battling to put food on the table. So personally, I think it's pretty fucking shitty that a bot is taking all of their promo work and posting it here where people will never even look at their links.
And yeah, no one has disagreed here directly to me but I've seen what people are saying about it in other places here on Lemmy.
An account literally called 'Bot' (so probably run by the admins of that instance) that seems to pretty much mirror entire NSFW subreddits, specifically subreddits that content creators make use of.
But it doesn't matter, I'm probably gonna delete this comment and my first comment soon. Because I'm really not in the mood to hear all of the justifying of it and excuses for it from people who like to go around acting like paragons of virtue in all other areas.
Rep. Nancy Mace accuses ex-fiancé and associates of assaulting her and raping others in House speech
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This comment section is a dumpster fire.
social media is only as good as its user base
I'm with you on this one. Honestly I'm starting to consider jumping through all of the hoops required to get going on Reddit again myself. I can make do with few entertainment related subs but I keep thinking about how there's a reason that no major women's spaces from Reddit have been able to ever take off here on Lemmy. And the fact that LGBTQ+ communities needed their own instance with downvotes disabled as a solution against vote brigading. It gives this place a pretty dark undercurrent despite all of its supposed left wing fervour.
And then there's the smart ass sarcastic replies to everything, like you're experiencing in this thread, that I see in almost every single thread. I've seen a new user come to this platform and ask if there's a gen z community, only to get no answers to the question and a bunch of people going "wHo CAreS abOUT LabElS and GrOUps? Look at me, I'm such a free thinker!" Yesterday I saw someone posting that they wish there were more pop music and sports related communities, only for all the replies to be along the lines of "FuCK pOP muSIc, wHo waNTs to SEe that? Look at me, I'm such a free thinker!" And it's fucking annoying, if I'm being honest.
I don't want to feel this way because I love the idea of this platform. But I dunno, I'm missing being able to discuss certain feminist issues in communities where I'm not going to be called a sexist, have people comparing nazism to astrology to try and make a point that women bad too instead of addressing issues that need addressing, and have comments removed.
There's good people here too. People that have been very cool and encouraging. And who make the effort to actually answer people's questions about communities without just shitting on them. But to me, those people seem to be a few lights shining in the darkness that covers everything else. And it's starting to affect my mood negatively.
Edit: I was a bit mistaken. It was in fact the Observer that was sold by the Guardian group. Still seems like there's smoke which indicates fire but I was not entirely correct here. See one of the replies to my comment for more information.
Based on what I can find, The Guardian was actually sold to a company called Tortoise Media two months ago in December 2024. And according to Wikipedia:
So not even the journalists wanted this company in control. And funnily enough, there was a Guardian article in 2018 that specifically mentioned Tortoise Media while talking about the "increased involvement of private wealth in the journalism industry" and how that is a bad thing. So from what I can tell, it can no longer be trusted.
Wikipedia article on Tortoise Media here.